His. Chris Murphy
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“Dismissal not only comes with the disposition to dismiss a person from office, but to disqualify him from future office,” Murphy told Fox News Sunday. “I don’t think our job is over just because the president has left office.”
The Connecticut senator also denied the trial prevented the Senate from conducting other business, noting the confirmation hearings scheduled for next week.
“That doesn’t stop the rest of the business, the Senate can walk and chew gum at the same time,” he said.
Fox News host Chris Wallace
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Murphy compared this to Trump’s dismissal trial in 2020 and said that “if House managers want to call witnesses, I think we should allow them to do so,” but that in Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, “the American people didn’t” look what happened. “
This year, however, “we saw what happened in real time, President Trump sent that angry crowd to the Capitol on live television, so it’s not so important that we have witnesses.”
Wallace asked Murphy to respond to the senator’s comments. Rand Paul
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Murphy called the comparison a false equivalence, saying: “There is no comparison … it is an effort to annul the election, it is a crowd of tens of thousands of people. he was producing the attack, the president had the ability to turn them around and he didn’t. The circumstances are completely different. “